Walking Dartmoor’s River Webburn

The Webburn might not be the first river that comes to mind when you think of Dartmoor rivers, but I think of it as one of the best. The Webburn is surely Dartmoor’s most secret river, even if one of its branches does flow through Widecombe in the Moor – the Moor’s most popular tourist village. It

An Appleby Wall

There’s a wall in Appleby – the former county town of Westmorland – that always intrigues me. It’s situated in Bongate – the oldest part of the town – across a quiet lane from the oldest church in the place, sadly now a private home. And, at some point in its history, long before it

Breaking news: #Stonehenge may have been a second-hand circle brought from Wales! — The Heritage Journal

If ever the folly of building a mile of destructive new roads across the Stonehenge World Heritage landscape needed stressing to the world (see yesterday’s article) then this is it. There is still so much to learn at Stonehenge, and destroying huge amounts of precious evidence by driving a mile of new dual carriageways across […]

Walking the Local Paths

I wrote this three years ago. We had no idea then just how important local paths were to become in these days of pandemic. So please help the Ramblers claim those 49000 miles of paths that are not yet on the Definitive Map. Fight this government’s proposals to make your freedom to roam in our

Planning Application For Permanent Vehicular Access To Black Moss & Swellands. — Path Watch

Swellands reservoir. A planning application has been submitted to the Peak Park by The Canal & Rivers Trust to build a road into Black Moss & Swellands Reservoir from the A62. This quiet area has no vehicle access and the character of the moors here will be changed by a development on this scale. The […]